Disc Details
Technical Specs
- BD-50 Blu-ray Disc
Video Resolution/Codec
- 1080p/AVC MPEG-4
Aspect Ratio(s)
- 1.33:1
Audio Formats
- Farsi: Mono
Subtitles/Captions
- English
Supplements
- Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, authors of Abbas Kiarostami
- The Traveler, a notable early feature by director Abbas Kiarostami
- "Close-up" Long Shot, a forty-five-minute documentary on Close-up's central figure, Hossein Sabzian, five years after Kiarostami's film
- A Walk with Kiarostami (2003), a thirty-two minute documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akram
- New video interview with Kiarostami
- A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Godfrey Cheshire
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Close-up (Blu-ray)
Criterion / 1990 / 98 Minutes
Street Date: June 22, 2010
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Genres: Drama
Director:
Abbas Kiarostami
Plot Synopsis: Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Ten) has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up continues to resonate with viewers around the world.
